Handheld diabetes manager with a user interface for displaying a status of an external medical device

• US 9,402,956 B2
• Filed: 01/27/2016
• Issued: 08/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Roche Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations Incorporated (Roche Holding AG)
• Inventors: Nierzwick, Mark, Mears, Mark, Pash, Phillip Edgar, Rizzo, Vincent R., Steiner, Bettina, Westerfield, Kristin M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Sasaki, Shogo
• Application Number:
  US15/007,443
• Publication Number:
  US 20160158443A1
• Time in Patent Office: 188 Days
• Field of Search: 700/17, 700/18, 700/83, 700/266, 340/539.12, 702/19, 702/22, 702/23, 702/25, 702/31, 702/32, 600/365
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0295 Strip shaped analyte sensors for apparatus classified in A61B5/145 or A61B5/157 disposable multilayered or laminated electrodes G01N27/307; details of handling chemical test elements G01N33/4875
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7435 Displaying user selection data, e.g. icons in a graphical user interface
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/35 Communication
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3569 sublocal, e.g. between console and disposable
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3584 using modem, internet or bluetooth
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3592 using telemetric means, e.g. radio or optical transmission
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/502 User interfaces, e.g. screens or keyboards
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/505 Touch-screens; Virtual keyboard or keypads; Virtual buttons; Soft keys; Mouse touches
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2230/201 Glucose concentration
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14244 adapted to be carried by the patient, e.g. portable on the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1723 using feedback of body parameters, e.g. blood-sugar, pressure measurement of body parameters A61B5/00
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 2270/0421 Controlled or regulated
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/66 involving blood sugars, e.g. galactose
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/17 delivered via infusion or injection
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 15/02 Reducing interference from electric apparatus by means located at or near the interfering apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/26 : at least one of which is mobile
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 : Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/20 : Master-slave selection or change arrangements

Abstract

A handheld diabetes manager has a graphical user interface for displaying status of an external medical device and includes a port configured to receive a test strip and a blood glucose measurement module. The diabetes manager includes a communications module that selectively communicates via a wireless data link with an external medical device to receive status data pertaining to the operation of the external medical device, and a user interface module in data communication with the blood glucose measurement module and the communications module. The graphical user interface includes a status screen that presents data pertaining to a glucose measure determined by the blood glucose measurement module concurrently with the status data received from the external medical device, such that the status data of the external medical device is presented on the status screen only when the communication module is in data communication with the external medical device.

Claims

1. A handheld diabetes manager having a graphical user interface for displaying a status of one or more external medical devices, comprising:

a housing;

a port formed in the housing and configured to receive a test strip for blood glucose measurement;

a blood glucose measurement module residing in the housing and cooperatively operates with a test strip inserted in the port for blood glucose measurement;

a communications module configured to selectively communicate via a wireless data link with the one or more external medical devices to receive status data pertaining to the operation of the one or more external medical devices, the one or more external medical device being physically separated from the diabetes manager;

a display integrated into the housing; and

a user interface module in data communication with the blood glucose measurement module and the communications module, the user interface module programmed to generate a graphical user interface on the display of the handheld diabetes manager, wherein the graphical user interface includes a main menu and a status screen, the main menu having buttons for each of the one or more external medical devices connectable to the handheld diabetes manager, such that a button for a corresponding external medical device is enabled only in response to determining that the communication module is in data communication with the corresponding external medical device, and the status screen presents data pertaining to a glucose measure determined by the blood glucose measurement module concurrently with the status data received from the one or more external medical devices, wherein the user interface module is implemented by computer readable instructions executed by a processor in the handheld diabetes manager.

2. The handheld diabetes manager of claim 1, wherein the one or more external medical devices is defined as one of an insulin pump and a continuous glucose monitoring device.

3. The handheld diabetes manager of claim 1 wherein the communications module is an RF transceiver.

4. The handheld diabetes manager of claim 2 wherein in response to determining that the insulin pump is paired and communicating with the diabetes manager and the insulin pump is delivering basal insulin, the status screen displays a basal information bar with a basal icon, basal profile, basal rate value and units.

5. The handheld diabetes manager of claim 1 wherein the status screen displays a blood glucose result from a most recent blood glucose test and time information regarding when the blood glucose test was completed.

6. The handheld diabetes manager of claim 2 wherein in response to determining that the insulin pump is paired with the diabetes manager and the insulin pump is running, the status screen displays a pump running icon.

7. The handheld diabetes manager of claim 2 wherein in response to determining that the insulin pump is paired with the diabetes manager and the insulin pump is stopped, the status screen displays a pump stop icon.

8. The handheld diabetes manager of claim 2 wherein in response to determining that the insulin pump is paired with the diabetes manager and the insulin pump is paused, the status screen displays a pump pause icon.